2022 Montenegrin local elections
Montenegro
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458 seats in local parliaments
Party Leader % Seats +/–
DPS Milo Đukanović 110 −86
DF Collective leadership 98 +52
PES! Milojko Spajić 41 +41
BS Ervin Ibrahimović 39 +10
SNP Vladimir Joković 37 −2
DCG Aleksa Bečić 36 −16
SD Damir Šehović 33 −7
URA Dritan Abazović 25 +14
SDP Raško Konjević 23 +10
KSH Gëzim Hajdinaga 11 +4
AO Nazif Cungu 10 −2
BB Radomir Novaković 2 −3
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Mayoral seats before Mayoral seats after
DPS (10)
SNP (2)
BS (1)
SD (1)
DF (1)
Independent (1)		 DF (4)
PES! (2)
DPS (2)
URA (1)
SNP (1)
DCG (1)
SD (1)
Independent (1)
BS (1)
DI (1)

Local elections were held in Montenegro in March and October 2022 in 13 municipalities and early elections in 2 municipalities.

In June 2021, President of the Parliament of Montenegro Aleksa Bečić started the initiative for organizing local elections in 17 or 18 municipalities in the same day in 2022.[1]

President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, set elections for 26 January 2022 in Berane and for 27 March Ulcinj.[2] On 4 February Montenegro Parliament changed the law for elections in municipalities with the goal that all elections are going to be held on one day,[3] but president Milo Đukanović did not support this change.

President Đukanović set early elections in Tivat and Budva[4][5] as well as regular elections: in Žabljak and Plužine for 5 June;[6] elections in Bijelo Polje and Šavnik for 12 June;[7] and elections in Bar, Danilovgrad, Kolašin and Podgorica for 19 June.[8]

After the new governing majority (DPS, URA, BS, SD and SNP) was formed, they gave initiative to shift elections in 14 municipalities for 23 October.[9]

Results

March elections

Berane

Party / Coalition[10][11] Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DPS-SD-BS-LP
3,798
25.6%
9
 Decrease8 No
SNP
2,821
19%
7
 Steady0 No
DF
2,559
17.2%
6
 Steady0 Yes
DCG
2,452
16.5%
6
 Increase2 Yes
ES
1,601
10.8%
4
 Increase4 Yes
PCG
820
5.5%
2
 Increase2 Yes
UCG
688
4.6%
1
 Steady0 Yes
BIA
115
0.8%
0
 Steady0 —

Ulcinj

Party / Coalition[12] Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
URA–SD–SDP–AA–PD
4,962
42.7%
14
 Increase2 Yes
DPS–BS
2,108
18.2%
6
 Decrease3 No
DUA–DSCG
2,037
17.5%
6
 Increase2 No
Forca
1,674
14.4%
5
 Decrease3 Yes
DCG
829
7.1%
2
 Increase2 No

October elections

Budva

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DF 5,690 49.5% 18 Increase7 Yes
DPS–SD–SDP–LP–GI 21 May 3,077 26.8% 9 Decrease3 No
DCG–DEMOS 1,500 13.0% 4 Decrease2 Yes
URA 604 5.2% 1 Steady Yes
SNP 401 3.5% 1 Decrease1 Yes
PCG 127 1.1% 0 Decrease1 —
GA 99 0.9% 0 Steady —

Tivat

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DPS–SD–SDP–LP 2,604 34.0% 12 Decrease2 No
NP–ES–DCG–DSS 2,196 28.7% 10 Decrease1 Yes
HGI 657 8.6% 3 Increase1 No
DF 656 8.6% 3 Increase3 Yes
KL 537 7.0% 2 new Yes
TA–GB 333 4.4% 1 Steady0 Yes
BF 306 4.1% 1 Decrease1 Yes
URA–SNP 185 2.4% - Steady0 —
AZT 170 2.2% - Decrease1 —

Plužine

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
SNP 1,066 55.7% 17 Increase1 Yes
NSD 394 20.6% 6 Increase2 No
DCG–DSS 246 12.9% 4 Steady No
DPS–SD 144 7.5% 2 Decrease4 No
URA 63 3.3% 1 new Yes

Žabljak

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DPS–SD 746 32.1% 11 Decrease7 No
DI 489 21.0% 6 new Yes
DF 412 17.7% 5 Steady Yes
DCG 376 16.2% 5 Decrease1 Yes
SNP 210 9.0% 2 Steady No
PCG 92 4.0% 1 new Yes

Bijelo Polje

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DPS–SD–SDP–BPP-LP 9,607 38.6% 15 Decrease10 Yes
DF 3,510 14.1% 5 Increase1 No
DCG–UCG 3,176 12.7% 5 Increase2 No
BS 2,859 11.5% 4 Increase2 Yes
ES 2,504 10.0% 4 new No
SNP 1,500 6.0% 2 Steady No
URA 1,255 5.0% 2 Steady No
PCG 229 0.9% - Steady —
SPP 125 0.5% - Steady —
SSL 107 0.4% - new —
NGZ 45 0.2% - new —

Šavnik

Šavnik elections were particularly noteworthy due to a high amount of incidents and so called "Election Tourists" on the election day which prompted them to organize repeat elections the following Sunday. However, that one was also rendered invalid due to a large amount of incidents. This continued on for several more weeks before the municipal electoral body gave up and didn't organize any further repeat elections.[13][14][15][16][17] As of December 2023, no outcome has been reached, and the pre-election government remains in power.

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DCG–ES–UCG
DF–SNP
DPS–SD

Bar

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DPS–SDP–LP 8,267 37.6% 15 Decrease2 Yes
DCG–ES–UCG 4,014 18.2% 7 Increase4 No
DF 2,698 12.3% 5 Increase4 No
SD 2,290 10.4% 4 Decrease3 Yes
URA–Civis–AA 1,815 8.2% 3 Increase2 No
BB 1,141 5.2% 2 Decrease3 No
BS 859 3.9% 1 Steady Yes
SNP 425 1.9% - Decrease1 —
PCG 375 1.7% - Decrease1 —
SPP 123 0.6% - new —

Danilovgrad

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DPS–SD–LP 2,495 27.1% 10 Decrease12 No
ES 2,110 22.9% 8 new Yes
DF 1,361 14.8% 5 Increase2 Yes
DCG 1,154 12.5% 4 Decrease1 Yes
URA 484 5.2% 2 Increase1 Yes
SDP 364 3.9% 1 Increase1 No
SNP 323 3.5% 1 Steady Yes
Preokret 296 3.2% 1 new No
UCG-PCG 288 3.1% 1 Steady Yes
21 May 207 2.2% - new —
DNS 135 1.5% - new —

Kolašin

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DPS–SDP–SD 1,334 29.5% 9 Decrease8 No
DCG–UCG 1,209 26.7% 9 Increase3 Yes
DF 619 13.7% 4 Increase1 Yes
ES 525 11.6% 3 new Yes
SNP 404 8.9% 3 Increase1 Yes
ZNK 269 5.9% 2 new No
URA 161 3.6% 1 new Yes

Podgorica

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DPS–SDP–SD–LP–GI21M–BS–DUA 37,518 38.1% 24 Decrease11 No
ES 21,388 21.7% 13 new Yes
DF–PCG–SCG 17,953 18.2% 11 Increase5 Yes
DCG–UCG–Demos 10,628 10.8% 6 Decrease7 Yes
URA–Civis–AA 6,265 6.4% 4 Decrease1 Yes
SNP 2,719 2.8% - Decrease2 —
PP 1,807 1.8% - new —
SSL 220 0.2% - new —

Plav

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
SD–SDP–DPS 2281 46.7% 16 Decrease3 Yes
BS 1046 21.4% 7 Steady Yes
DF–PCG 648 13.3% 4 Increase3 No
URA–AA 549 11.2% 3 Increase2 No
SNP 219 4.5% 1 Steady No
ES 140 2.9% - new —

Pljevlja

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DF 5,620 32.7% 12 Increase8 Yes
DPS–BS–SD–SDP 4,584 26.7% 9 Decrease11 No
DCG–UCG–PP 3,545 20.6% 7 Decrease2 Yes
ES 2,136 12.4% 4 new Yes
SNP–URA 1,176 6.8% 2 Steady Yes
SPP 128 0.7% 0 Steady —

Rožaje

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
BS 7,138 57.9 22 Increase3 Yes
DPS–SD–SDP–LP 2,830 23.0 8 Decrease7 No
URA 865 7.0 2 Increase2 No
SPP 764 6.2 2 Increase2 No
ES 277 2.3 0 —
NSD–SNP 236 1.9 0 —
DCG 216 1.7 0 —

Zeta

Party / Coalition Popular vote % of vote Seats ± Gov't
DF–PCG 4.502 49.2% 16 new municipality Yes
DPS–SD–SDP 2.335 25.5% 8 new municipality No
DCG 1.933 21.1% 7 new municipality Yes
SNP 384 4.2% 1 new municipality Yes

List of mayors and local governments

Municipality Mayor before elections Party Mayor after elections Party Local government
Podgorica Ivan Vuković DPS Olivera Injac ES
ES-DF-DCG-URA
Bijelo Polje Petar Smolović DPS Petar Smolović DPS
DPS-SD-BS-SDP
Bar Dušan Raičević DPS Dušan Raičević DPS
DPS-SD-BB-BS-SDP
Pljevlja Rajko Kovačević DPS Dario Vraneš DF
DF-DCG–UCG–PP-ES
Berane Tihomir Bogavac SNP Vuko Todorović DF
DF-DCG-ES-UCG-PCG
Rožaje Rahman Husović BS Rahman Husović BS
BS
Ulcinj Aleksandar Dabović DPS Omer Bajraktari URA
URA-DP-SD-SDP-FORCA
Danilovgrad Zorica Kovačević DPS Aleksandar Grgurović ES
ES-DF-DCG-URA-SNP-UCG-PCG
Plav Nihad Canović SD Nihad Canović SD
SD-BS-SDP-DPS
Kolašin Milosav Bulatović DPS Vladimir Martinović DCG
DCG-UCG-DF-ES-SNP-URA
Žabljak Veselin Vukićević DPS Radoš Žugić DI
DI-DF-DCG-PCG
Plužine Mijuško Bajagić SNP Slobodan Delić SNP
SNP–URA
Šavnik Velimir Perišić DPS TBA TBA
DPS-SD
Budva Marko Carević DF Milo Božović DF
DF-DCG-URA-SNP
Tivat Željko Komnenović Ind. Željko Komnenović Ind.
NP–ES–DCG–DSS-DF-KL-TA–GB-BF
Zeta Tanja Stajović DPS Mihailo Asanović DF
DF-DCG-SNP

References

  1. ^ İzbori da budu istog dana u 18 opstina RTCG, 13 July 2021
  2. ^ Izbori u beranama i ulcinju 27 Marta RTCG, 26 January 2022
  3. ^ Lokalni izbori u 14 opština u jednom danu; Koprivica: Motiv je da se pobjegne od suda građana Vijesti, 4 February 2022
  4. ^ Đukanović raspisao izbore u Tivtu za 5. jun CdM, 12 March 2022
  5. ^ Đukanović raspisao prevremene izbore u Budvi za 5. jun N1, 2 April 2022
  6. ^ Lokalni izbori na Žabljaku i u Plužinama 5. juna RTCG, 6 April 2022
  7. ^ U Bijelom Polju 358 glasača manje, a u Šavniku 21 Vijesti, 15 April 2022
  8. ^ Izbori u Baru, Danilovgradu, Kolašinu i Podgorici 19. juna RTCG, 20 April 2022
  9. ^ Lokalni izbori biće održani 23. oktobra Vijesti 10 May 2022
  10. ^ "DPS-u devet mandata, SNP-u sedam, ZBB i Demokratama po šest..." RTCG (in Montenegrin). Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Zapisnik o radu OIK Berane" (PDF).
  12. ^ "Raspored mandata - Ulcinj" (PDF). Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  13. ^ https://www.vijesti.me/vijesti/politika/628514/opozicija-u-prednosti-pred-trecu-ofanzivu
  14. ^ https://www.cdm.me/politika/cetvrti-pokusaj-danas-glasanje-na-dva-biracka-mjesta-u-savniku/
  15. ^ https://www.cdm.me/politika/nastavak-sage-u-savniku-danas-ponovno-glasanje-na-dva-biracka-mjesta/
  16. ^ https://www.cdm.me/politika/savnik-sesti-krug-ponavljanje-izbora-na-dva-biracka-mjesta-pravo-glasa-ima-541-birac/
  17. ^ https://www.cdm.me/politika/propao-i-sedmi-izborni-krug-u-savniku-glasace-se-ponovo-sljedece-nedjelje/
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